Man Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson says “Shalom Auslander writes like some contemporary comedic Jeremiah\, thundering warnings of disaster and retribution. What makes him so terrifyingly funny is that he isn't joking.” The acclaimed author of Foreskin's Lament and Beware of God will talk about his first novel with Jessa Crispin\, editor and founder of Bookslut.com.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T073701Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120204T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120204T000000Z UID:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/andre-dubus-iii-conversation-john-burnham-schwartz URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/andre-dubus-iii-conversation-john-burnham-schwartz SUMMARY:Andre Dubus III in conversation with John Burnham Schwartz END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T073701Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120204T163000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120204T163000Z UID:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/chinese-new-year-shadow-puppets URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/chinese-new-year-shadow-puppets SUMMARY:Sky Lanterns DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T073701Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120205T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120205T230000Z UID:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/gotham-writers-workshop-memoir-writing-kelly-caldwell URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/gotham-writers-workshop-memoir-writing-kelly-caldwell SUMMARY:Gotham Writers' Workshop\: Memoir Writing with Kelly Caldwell DESCRIPTION:This is a free memoir writing workshop with Kelly Caldwell. Kelly Caldwell has written for New York Newsday\, TimeOut New York\, House Beautiful\, and Men's Health. One of her essays was named a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2001 and selected for the anthology If These Walls Could Talk\: Thoughts of Home. She has worked with student writers at the Extension School of Harvard University.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T073701Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120208T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120208T000000Z UID:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/news-underground-christianist-infiltration-americas-public-schools URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/news-underground-christianist-infiltration-americas-public-schools SUMMARY:News From Underground\: \\"Christianist Infiltration of America's Public Schools\\" DESCRIPTION:Mark Crispin Miller will moderate a panel discussion\, "\;Christianist Infiltration of America's Schools"\;\, with Katherine Stewart (The Good News Club)\, Frank Schaeffer (Sex\, Mom &\; God)\, Jonathan Zimmerman (Small Wonder\: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory)\, and Jeff Sharlet (Sweet Heaven When I Die).Co-sponsored by Truthout.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T073701Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120209T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120209T000000Z UID:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/real-characters-mcnally-jackson-4 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/real-characters-mcnally-jackson-4 SUMMARY:Real Characters at McNally Jackson DESCRIPTION:Real Characters is a monthly storytelling and performance show that combines some of New York’s best storytellers with its funniest\, most innovative comedians and writers. So\, some of it’s true\, some of it feels more than true\, and most of it is mostly funny. Past performers include writers\, journalists\, actors\, stand-ups and 1950s housewives\, who have appeared on the Moth Mainstage\, This American Life\, BBC’s The World\, HBO’s Funny or Die and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Joining us in February\:
Conversations on Practice is an ongoing series hosted by Glenn Kurtz devoted to the daily work of art-making. He discusses with artists\, musicians\, and authors how they hone their craft and understand their own work. Here Kurtz will be talking to Peter Mendelsund. Multiple award-winning art director and designer Peter Mendelsund is associate art director at Alfred A. Knopf\, as well as the art director of Pantheon Books\, Schocken books\, and Vertical Press. He has jacketed books for Nobel Prize winners\, Supreme Court justices\, Pulitzer Prize winners\, Booker Prize winners\, and innumerable best-selling authors. His designs for Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy are among the most widely recognizeable book jackets in the United States and abroad. His thoughts on design and publishing can be read on his blog jacketmechanical.blogspot.com.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T073701Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120211T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120211T000000Z UID:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/para-m%C3%AD-eres-divina-de-david-unger-presentado-por-jaime-manrique URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/para-m%C3%AD-eres-divina-de-david-unger-presentado-por-jaime-manrique SUMMARY:Para mí\, eres divina\, de David Unger. Presentado por Jaime Manrique DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T073701Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120211T163000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120211T163000Z UID:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/steampunk-victorian-valentines-0 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/steampunk-victorian-valentines-0 SUMMARY:Steampunk Victorian Valentines DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T073701Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120212T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120212T230000Z UID:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/festival-neue-literatur-writing-margins-literature-between-cultures URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/festival-neue-literatur-writing-margins-literature-between-cultures SUMMARY:Festival Neue Literatur\: \\"Writing on the Margins\: Literature between Cultures\\" DESCRIPTION:Francisco Goldman\, Monica Cantieni\, Larissa Boehning and Erwin Uhrman in conversation with Liesl Schillinger.
As in the United States\, the literary scene in Europe is currently abuzz with hybridity and border crossings that explore the lives of characters who move between different cultural and ethnic worlds. There as here\, questions of power and authenticity are not far behind as these authors explore the sometimes explosive conditions that arise when cultures intersect and\, yes\, sometimes clash.
This event is part of the Festival Neue Literatur\, and is free and open to the public.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T073701Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120214T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120214T000000Z UID:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/granta-118-way-out URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/granta-118-way-out SUMMARY:Granta 118\: The Way Out DESCRIPTION:Join Granta 118\: Exit Strategies poets Paula Bohince\, Sophie Cabot Black\, Ishion Hutchinson and Rowan Ricardo Phillips for readings that explore fleeing one's life\, phantoms and choice.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T073701Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120215T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120215T000000Z UID:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/disparen-contra-la-academia-jos%C3%A9-del-valle-en-conversaci%C3%B3n-con-javier-rioyo URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/disparen-contra-la-academia-jos%C3%A9-del-valle-en-conversaci%C3%B3n-con-javier-rioyo SUMMARY:Disparen contra la Academia. José del Valle en conversación con Javier Rioyo y María Pozzi DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T073701Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120216T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120216T000000Z UID:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/conversation-black-cool-rebecca-walker-margo-jefferson-and-miles-marshall-lewis URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/conversation-black-cool-rebecca-walker-margo-jefferson-and-miles-marshall-lewis SUMMARY:A conversation on Black Cool with Rebecca Walker\, Margo Jefferson\, and Miles Marshall Lewis DESCRIPTION:Black Cool explores the ineffable state and aesthetic of Black Cool. From the effortless reserve of Miles Davis in khakis on an early album cover\, to the shock of resistance in black women's fashion from Angela Davis to Rihanna\, to the cadence of poets as diverse as Staceyann Chin and Audre Lorde\, Black Cool looks at the roots of Black Cool and attempts to name elements of the phenomena that have emerged to shape the global expectation of cool itself. Rebecca Walker\, editor of the anthology\, will be joined by Margo Jefferson and Miles Marshall Lewis\, contributors to the book.
Rebecca Walker is the author of the memoirs Black\, White and Jewish and Baby Love and the editor of the anthologies To Be Real\, What Makes a Man\, and One Big Happy Family. Her writing has appeared in Bookforum\, The Washington Post Book World\, Newsweek\, Glamour\, Vibe\, and Interview among other publications.
Margo Jefferson is a New York–based cultural critic. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 and published On Michael Jackson in 2006. She’s written and performed two theater pieces and is working on a second book. She teaches writing at Columbia University and Eugene Lang College. Looking back\, she feels she has spent too much time being a Good Negro Girl and not enough being a Willful Negro Eccentric.
Miles Marshall Lewis has been an editor at Vibe\, XXL\, and BET and written for the Huffington Post\, Salon\, Essence\, the Believer\, and many other publications. He is the author of the novel Irrésistible\; a biography on Sly and the Family Stone\, called There’s a Riot Goin’ On\; and Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don’t Have Bruises\, a collection of essays. He lives in Manhattan. Instead of the more predictable Coltrane\, Lewis named his youngest son Kalel\, after Superman\, the last son of Krypton. MML blogs at his site\, www. furthermucker.com.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T073701Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120217T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120217T000000Z UID:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/stewart-onan-conversation-edward-champion URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/stewart-onan-conversation-edward-champion SUMMARY:Stewart O'Nan in conversation with Edward Champion DESCRIPTION:In the new novel from the author of Last Night at the Lobster\, a middle-age couple goes all in for love at a Niagara Falls casino. Stewart O'Nan will be in conversation with Edward Champion\, writer and host of The Bat Segundo Show.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T073701Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120218T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120218T000000Z UID:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/criaturas-abisales-de-marina-perezgua-presentaci%C3%B3n-cargo-de-antonio-mu%C3%B1oz-molina URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/criaturas-abisales-de-marina-perezgua-presentaci%C3%B3n-cargo-de-antonio-mu%C3%B1oz-molina SUMMARY:Criaturas Abisales\, de Marina Perezgua. Presentación a cargo de Antonio Muñoz Molina. DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T073701Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120218T163000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120218T163000Z UID:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/meet-guest-author-cyb%C3%A9le-young URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/meet-guest-author-cyb%C3%A9le-young SUMMARY:Meet Guest Author Cybèle Young DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T073701Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120221T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120221T000000Z UID:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/news-underground-future-occupation URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/news-underground-future-occupation SUMMARY:News from Underground\: The Future of the Occupation DESCRIPTION:"\;News from Underground"\; is hosted by Mark Crispin Miller\, a professor at NYU and author of many books on politics and cultural history. In these tense times\, there are many topics of extreme importance that the corporate media tends to ignore or misreport. "\;News from Underground"\; is a monthly series of panels that will deal honestly with these forbidden issues.
This special panel will focus on the future of OWS. It's free and open to the public\, but we'll be accepting donations for Occupied Media. Panelists include David Graeber\, Nicholas Mirzoeff\, and Andrew Ross. Co-sponsored by Truthout.
David Graeber teaches anthropology at Goldsmiths College\, University of London. He is the author of Debt\: The First 5\,000 Years\, Towards an Anthropological Theory of Value\, Lost People\, and Possibilities\: Essays on Hierarchy\, Rebellion\, and Desire. He has written for Harper's\, The Nation\, Mute\, and The New Left Review.
Nicholas Mirzoeff is Professor of Media\, Culture and Communication at NYU. His many publications include The Right to Look\: A Counterhistory of Visuality (2011) and An Introduction to Visual Culture (2009). He is active in Education and Empowerment and Direct Action at OWS. He has written about the movement for Occupy! and Public Culture as well as his ongoing durational writing project\, Occupy 2012\: a piece of writing on Occupy every day on 2012.
Andrew Ross is a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. A contributor to the Nation\, the Village Voice\, New York Times\, and Artforum\, he is the author of many books\, including\, most recently\, Bird On Fire\: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City\, Nice Work if You Can Get It\: Life and Labor in Precarious Times\, Fast Boat to China--Lessons from Shanghai\, Low Pay\, High Profile\: The Global Push for Fair Labor\, No-Collar\: The Humane Workplace and its Hidden Costs\, and The Celebration Chronicles\: Life\, Liberty and the Pursuit of Property Value in Disney’s New Town. He is one of the organizers of the Occupy Student Debt Campaign.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T073701Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120222T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120222T000000Z UID:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/nafisa-hoodbhoy-conversation-professor-henry-chip-carey-and-karen-frillman-wnyc URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/nafisa-hoodbhoy-conversation-professor-henry-chip-carey-and-karen-frillman-wnyc SUMMARY:Nafisa Hoodbhoy in conversation with Professor Henry (Chip) Carey and Karen Frillman of WNYC DESCRIPTION:Nafisa Hoodbhoy\, who worked as the only female reporter in Pakistan during the 1980s\, will talk about her new book based on her front-line experiences. Hoodbhoy\, who relocated to the US shortly before 9/11\, has continued to follow political events in Pakistan. Professor Henry (Chip) Carey\, author and professor of political science at Georgia State University in Atlanta\, will join the discussion to talk about Pakistan's political history and the implications for the current crisis. The event will be moderated by Karen Frillman\, WNYC's Newsroom Managing Editor.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T073701Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120223T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120223T000000Z UID:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/biography-stacy-schiff-conversation-rachel-syme URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/biography-stacy-schiff-conversation-rachel-syme SUMMARY:On Biography\: Stacy Schiff in conversation with Rachel Syme DESCRIPTION:On Biography is a conversation and reading series devoted to the craft of biography. Host Rachel Syme will speak to leaders and emerging stars of the biography world\, discussing the thrills and challenges of writing about a life. This series will explore the ethics of reading personal letters and diaries\, the controversies that come with writing someone else's story\, and the excitement of uncovering a treasure in the archives. Rachel will talk with Stacy Schiff.
Stacy Schiff is the author of Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize\; Saint-Exupéry\, a Pulitzer Prize finalist\; and A Great Improvisation\: Franklin\, France\, and the Birth of America\, winner of the George Washington Book Prize\, the Ambassador Award in American Studies\, and the Gilbert Chinard Prize of the Institut Français d'Amérique. All three were New York Times Notable Books\; the Los Angeles Times Book Review\, the Chicago Tribune\, and The Economist also named A Great Improvisation a Best Book of the Year. The biographies have been published in a host of foreign editions. Her latest book is Cleopatra\, a New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year. Schiff has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities and was a Director’s Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She was awarded a 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Schiff has written for The New Yorker\, the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Los Angeles Times\, and the Boston Globe\, among other publications. She lives in New York City.
Rachel Syme is the former Books Editor for National Public Radio and a current NPR contributor and contributing culture editor for TIME Magazine. She is currently writing a biography of the love affair between Hollywood gossip columnist Sheilah Graham and author F. Scott Fitzgerald for Random House. She has read so many biographies that she often feels like she is living a hundred other lives in addition to her own.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T073701Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120224T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120224T000000Z UID:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/toby-lester-conversation-robert-krulwich-radiolab URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/toby-lester-conversation-robert-krulwich-radiolab SUMMARY:Toby Lester in conversation with Robert Krulwich of RadioLab DESCRIPTION:David Grann says\: "\;Every once in a while that rare book comes along that is not only wonderfully written and utterly compelling but also alters the way you perceive the world. Toby Lester’s Da Vinci's Ghost is such a book. Like a detective\, Lester uncovers the secrets of an iconic drawing and pieces together a magisterial history of art and ideas and beauty."\; The author will be in conversation with Robert Krulwich\, co-host of RadioLab and Science Correspondent for NPR.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T073701Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120225T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120225T000000Z UID:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/bookclub-trabajos-del-reino-de-yuri-herrera-mex URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/bookclub-trabajos-del-reino-de-yuri-herrera-mex SUMMARY:Spanish Bookclub\: Trabajos del Reino\, de Yuri Herrera (Mex) DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T073701Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120225T163000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120225T163000Z UID:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/read-across-america URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/read-across-america SUMMARY:Read Across America DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T073701Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120228T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120228T000000Z UID:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/eleanor-henderson-conversation-taylor-antrim URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/eleanor-henderson-conversation-taylor-antrim SUMMARY:CANCELED\: Eleanor Henderson in conversation with Taylor Antrim DESCRIPTION:Please note\: due to unfortunate circumstances\, this event has been canceled.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T073701Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120229T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120229T000000Z UID:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/ask-me-aboutmadame-bovary URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/ask-me-aboutmadame-bovary SUMMARY:Ask Me About...Madame Bovary DESCRIPTION:Know that classic novel you absolutely should have read by this point in your life? It's time to alleviate your nagging guilt with Ask Me About...\, a Time Out New York and McNally Jackson event that's part book club\, part lecture series\, part show and part social occasion. In February we'll tackle Lydia Davis' translation of Madame Bovary. Hosted by TONY's Books editor Matthew Love\, the free event is held downstairs at McNally Jackson. Writers and public figures who are passionate about the chosen classic will deliver introductory lectures. The crowd will be divided into groups for part of the evening\, and given different aspects of the text to discuss. Actors will put on short\, silly scenes which illustrate crucial moments of the plot\; musicians and poets will present works based on the work in question. Once the presentations are over\, participants will hang around\, drink\, talk about the book at length and offer suggestions for the next novel.
RSVP to askmeaboutbookclub@gmail.com\, pick up a copy of Madame Bovary\, READ IT and then show up at McNally Jackson on 2/28 at 7pm. We'll be selling copies of the new Lydia Davis translation of Madame Bovary at a ten percent discount.
Our guest lecturers for this Ask Me About... are publicist extraordinaire Lauren Cerand and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T073701Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120301T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120301T000000Z UID:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/behind-curtain-magazine-roundtable URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/behind-curtain-magazine-roundtable SUMMARY:Behind the Curtain\: A Magazine Roundtable DESCRIPTION:Join Ellah Allfrey\, James Marcus and Deborah Treisman - editors from Granta\, Harper's and The New Yorker - as they discuss how and why and what they publish. The proverbial slush pile\; the writers they're loving\; the ones that got away. Tonight they'll talk about what goes on behind the curtain. Granta editor John Freeman will moderate.
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